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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!nntp.coast.net!fu-berlin.de!zib-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Host name Date: 23 Jun 1996 19:58:10 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 20 Message-ID: <4qk7ki$9hc@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4qfhju$bi5@uwm.edu> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E bacon@miller.cs.uwm.edu (Jason Bacon) wrote: > I'm having trouble with my host name accepted by the system. At boot > time, I get a "BAD VALUE" message, and the mail daemon gives the > message "My host name (myname.my.domain) doesn't seem to exist" Hmm, you don't have a real hostname. myname.my.domain is the pre- configured dummy. If you don't really need a hostname, do at least enter the above into /etc/hosts: 127.0.0.1 localhost. myname.my.domain. (Note the trailing dots.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)